Only True Science Nerds Get This Joke

Chris Ferrie
9 min readApr 20, 2024

Five quantum physicists are in a car. Heisenberg is driving like he is in The Matrix. Schrödinger is in the front seat waving at the other cars. Einstein and Bohr are in the back arguing while Everett sits between them daydreaming about another universe.

They get pulled over. The officer walks up to the driver’s side and asks Heisenberg, “Do you know how fast you were going?”

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Chris Ferrie

Quantum theorist by day, father by night. Occasionally moonlighting as a author. csferrie.com